I fear the word ‘retro’ sometimes. It can mean a loving homage to a classic release, or a genre. It can mean taking a game back to basics an...

Princess Maker 2: Regeneration  is a game that should come with a content warning. How else am I supposed to approach a Nintendo Switch game...

There are two things I have a deep hatred for that are part of a lot of childhoods, and they are E.T, and Wookiees. Now, I won’t go into why...

You really can’t polish a turd. We live in a renaissance for video game remasters, remakes, and re-releases, where even the most obscure tit...

Based on a popular South Korean franchise, Uzzuzzu My Pet: Golf Dash takes visual, stylistic and gameplay cues from What the Golf? But it u...

Walking down corridors and having something shout “boo!” is great, but they do wear thin after a while, and as much as I love horror, I defi...

Perhaps I’m just not the right person to be writing about anime magical lesbian teenagers. As I sat on the London Underground playing  Death...

Sony’sBuzz! trivia game series was a massive PlayStation hit in the 2000s. Its straight forwardness was key to its success, with the game fa...

I tried... God help me I tried.  Look I'm not a fussy gamer. Of course, if I'm spending £70 on a AAA title I'll want a bit of sp...

The Collins English dictionary describes "half-arsed" as: "ADJECTIVE slang incompetent; inept; badly organized" And that...

I had a plan when this game was released, I had promised myself this year to watch more Hitchcock movies, and so before I played Vertigo, I ...

I have spent my last few reviews lamenting over the horror genre, all the games had similar flaws and each of them seemed to languish in gen...

I reviewed Autobahn Police Simulator 2 back at the end of 2020 , and, whilst I enjoyed my time with the game, the unavoidable technical issu...

When the apocalypse arrives it’ll probably be kinda boring. Games like  Fallout, The Last of Us,  and  Days Gone  are all razzle-dazzle comb...

My first impressions of Blackwind were positive. I’m a fan of the mecha anime aesthetic, and the story of a boy having to use a super-powere...

For anyone born after 1980 the prospect of inheriting a haunted house doesn’t hold the fear that it did for older generations. Sure, you’re ...

I am a basic bitch when it comes to shmups. I’ve played Treasure classics   Radiant Silvergun  and   Ikaruga , Jeff Minter’s neon ungulate w...

I'm a curmudgeonly old sod. I remember seasons living up to their descriptions, and turning up when they should. I remember having to me...

In 1999 I spent a summer working as a lumberjack in the mountains outside of Durango, Colorado. Each Saturday night we’d pile into a pickup ...

Although I watch Line of Duty, I wouldn't call myself an expert in police procedures.  That said, I'm reasonably sure that if, as an...